Category Archives: Saved CRCVoices Posts

Thoughts on Changes in the CRC through one Classis

We had classis this week. I’ve long been “an old guy” at Classis. Thatcomes quickly. Classis is still often run by “the old guys” but wewatch the times change. I put some of it in a video.https://youtu.be/WDYRJ5StRrI I couldn’t convey … Continue reading

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Better Together Is Only Making it Worse

These are two posts from Voices that relate and which I fumblingly read from on my video. Post after post, thread after thread. The position that same sex behavior is inherently sinful. It misses the mark. This was the heart … Continue reading

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Those Who Wish to See the CRCNA Affirm Same-Sex Marriage Ignore Synod 2022 at their Peril

Clay Libolt’s blog is one of the more important things to track in the ongoing conversation about the Christian Reformed Church and same sex marriage. He recently posted this piece. This is a repost of a posting of mine on … Continue reading

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Ideals before Prohibitions

This was similar to a “compromise” that I suggested at the start. It’s in practice exactly what the status quo in the CRCNA is now. There are now likely, quietly, people who are members and even office bearers in the … Continue reading

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More A1B Conversations on Voices

I chose “marriage equality” for a reason even though a good number of my conservative listeners objected. There are two motivations I can see in the CRC for changing the status quo: I remember the heartfelt speech by Jack Roeda … Continue reading

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Two Competing Ideals

I appreciated Paul’s writeup of the contra overtures. https://www.christiancourier.ca/five-major-concerns/ I can very much understand the angst and even panic among many who reasonably anticipate the complete passage of the HSR as hurtful and a slamming of the door on many … Continue reading

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Plotting Mile Markers on the Way to the Eschaton

The little back and forth over “plotting” was interesting. You plot a course, you plot mile markers, you plot a map. This came over the Internet. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/05/us/california-judge-martin-jenkins-trnd/index.html Relevance realization is the core of one of my conversation partners John Vervaeke … Continue reading

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We need to do better than weaponized “listening”

I appreciated Doug’s post on his experience with gay kids. It very much tracks with what I’ve seen. While I hear a lot of complaint from affirming straight and gay about churches that maintain theological positions and polity practicies that … Continue reading

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Confessional Conversation Again

If you recall in 2016 (and the years before) I made a case that the CRC needs to have a far deeper conversation BEFORE we talk about WICO, SSM, IVF, Cohabitation, legalized pot, prostitution, pornography, polyamory, power, senior-non-church-weddings, marriage, confessionalism … Continue reading

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The Woke are the Holiness Movement of the New Atheists

I wrote this for CRC-Voices responding to a Sacramentalist This morning I was thinking about a possible video about wokeness and secularism. In my conversation with James Lindsay he observed that the woke split and are trying to destroy the … Continue reading

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